Information about Donald Jenkins

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Culture [10], Literature [4], Personal [9], Politics [17], Religion [6], Sundry [5], Tech [16]

Culture

My interests span contemporary art, which has surrounded me ever since my infancy, heraldry, music, especially from Mozart up to the mid-Romantic period, as well as well-sung English choral music from the sixteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. I have worked in the field of culture and media in various capacities.

Literature

My favourite authors are those who wrote after the turn of the nineteenth century, but before the death of Camus, which still leaves quite a wide range. This happens to coincide with the so-called période grammaticale, a period during which form was deemed to matter more than substance, not because substance did not matter, but because form was the surest way of gauging the true value of the substance behind it—a view with which I heartily agree.

Personal

This includes a wide range of miscellaneous topics—inevitably inducing an impression of boundless eclecticism.

Politics

Politics are hardly a side interest, as can be seen from the articles collected here. I first indulged my taste for politics and current affairs at Oxford at the Oxford Union Society, and then as a student in Paris, where I was President of Conférence Olivaint.

Religion

Like the first Queen Elizabeth, I firmly believe in not putting windows into men’s souls (Collinson, Patrick (2004). Elizabeth I. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Yet like the second Queen of the same name, I take my religion (relatively) seriously and have occasionally shared thoughts about the subject here.

Sundry

These articles don’t fit neatly into this site’s topics. Their presence here probably bears witness the incorrigible eclecticity of my range of interests.

Tech

Subjects I’m passionate about include code, good web design, Net neutrality, and avoiding government interference in the Internet. I write a lot about Apple-related stuff, blogging techniques and trends in social networks.

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